Ofice
Weirdly bogus company!
Weirdly bogus company. Check out their laptops, cell phones, and DVD players for sale, LOL! And their official Microsoft Certified Partner logo? It links to a different company's certificate! (Look carefully). It's mostly fake. No surprise from a company with a misspelled name, I guess, but I was wearing the wrong glasses when I placed the order. Msoficeworks.com bills as Office Media, which appears to have quite a few of these sites under a variety of names. When I first tried to install and activate, using the official Microsoft download site and not the weird link in Luxembourg hiding under the setup.office.com link, it downloaded ok but when I tried to activate Microsoft said the license had already been used. Maybe it's excess on some company's site license, sold under the table, or some other scam? So I asked for a refund - who wants to pay for pirated software - and they insisted that they were a legitimate Microsoft reseller and that I needed to use Microsoft's phone activation instead. To my surprise that actually worked, and if Microsoft says it's ok what I am supposed to do? So I guess I am stuck with some very fishy software. I will report back if it stops working, but for now it is of course fine, because it is downloaded from the official Microsoft site. Regarding the Microsoft Reseller claim - this appears to be correct for Office Media. So why does the MSOficeworks badge link point to the MSOfficeWorks company registration (with two "f"s in "office", and apparently a different company, though also fishy in the reviews) instead of Office Media's? Same with the mailing address. It is all very fishy.